Description:

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Huastec culture, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE; Valley of Mexico, Aztec / Mixtec people, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE; Northwest Mexico, Chihuahua, Casas Grandes (Paquime), ca. 1280 to 1450 CE; West Mexico, Nayarit, ca. 500 BCE to 300 CE. A collection of 4 ancient Mesoamerican pottery vessels. The Huastec dish is decorated with a vertical banding and central trefoil motif and may have functioned as an offering or grave good. The Aztec tripodal dish had an incised surface within, possibly for grating chilis or other food and medicinal ingredients. The hemispherical Casa Grandes redware bowl has a good heft and weight with a textured exterior. The Nayarit bowl is highly burnished with a red on gray program painted on the surface perhaps a burial good for the deceased. Size of grater bowl: 8.25" Diameter x 2.75" H (21 cm x 7 cm)

Provenance: ex-Marc Amiguet Schmitt estate, Amiguet's Ancient Art, Evansville, Indiana, USA, acquired prior to January 1, 2010

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  • Condition: Huastec dish repaired from several pieces with hair line fissures and chips along breaks, nice root marks on surface. Losses to legs and chips to rim on grater bowl, and find site written on surface. Loss to rim and stable hair line fissure on red bowl. Burnished Nayarit bowl is intact with age commensurate surface wear.

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